Legal studies
General legal studies on questions relevant to individuals and companies in Jordan. Review your matter’s facts before relying on it professionally.
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Tax and banking
Trade Regulation & Customs Law
A practical summary of the Jordanian Customs Law explaining its scope, key definitions, tariff and valuation rules, and customs clearance and control procedures. The summary focuses on practical consequences for declarations, documentation, storage and transit regimes, and dispute/ enforcement mechanisms.
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Corporate Law
This brief defines termination and liquidation for a general partnership (shirka al-tadamun) and summarizes the general and Jordanian-specific causes that lead to company extinction. It outlines procedural and financial effects of liquidation, the liquidator’s powers, the priority of creditors and the distribution of partners’ shares.
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Company and Contract Law
A concise overview of the mudarabah as a contractual arrangement between the capital provider and the working partner, referencing Islamic jurisprudence and relevant Jordanian Civil Code provisions. The summary emphasizes validity requirements, grounds for nullity, and termination scenarios with their practical effects on the parties.
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Citizenship & Investment
A concise outline of the rules for granting Jordanian nationality to investors under recent amendments, highlighting the main investment routes, financial thresholds and procedural requirements. The summary indicates residency rights, family inclusion rules and practical and administrative limitations.
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Real Property Law
The piece explains the link between expropriation decisions and the imposition of an improvement tax on properties whose value rises as a result of expropriation-related works. It highlights the statutory constraints and procedures in Jordanian law, including rate caps, payment mechanisms, set-off rules and the statutory exemptions.
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Civil Procedure Law
This summary sets out a structured definition of nullity under Jordanian civil procedure law and the doctrinal and judicial prerequisites for declaring an act null. It also explains the practical division between public-order and private-interest nullities and their consequences for raising objections, waiver, and the role of formal requirements under statutory provisions and case law.
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Commercial Law
This summary examines the nature of supply contracts and their commercial character under Jordanian law and Islamic jurisprudence, and outlines doctrinal disputes over their permissibility. It also summarizes the legal consequences of fraud in supply contracts — criminal sanctions and civil remedies — with illustrative case-law and practical procedural guidance.
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Real Property Law
This study outlines the constitutional and statutory framework for compulsory acquisition for public use in Jordan, describing pre-expropriation steps, the formal decision-making process, and mechanisms for assessing and delivering compensation. It also summarizes owner safeguards, remedies where a project is not implemented, and special rules such as limited no-compensation takings for road works.
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Civil Law
The piece outlines judicial authority to effectuate contractual modifications, identifying situations where courts may impose new terms or reduce obligations due to unforeseen circumstances or adhesion contracts. It also clarifies the Court of Cassation’s supervisory role, limited to mistakes in interpretation or excesses in applying modification rules.
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Commercial Law
This summary explains commercial distribution agency as a subtype of commercial agency and outlines the relevant Jordanian legal sources. It addresses the agency’s defining traits, parties, formal requirements, essential contractual data and the practical obligations of each side, noting the call for clearer statutory regulation.
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Contract/Obligations Law
This summary explains the scope of the principle that contractual effects are generally confined to the contracting parties and how those effects may extend to heirs, specific transferees, or third parties. It highlights practical exceptions and procedural limits that prevent or permit transfer of contractual rights and obligations.
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Commercial Law
This summary outlines the legal framework of the brokerage contract under Jordanian law, including the statutory definition, contract characteristics, and parties’ obligations. It also explains practical effects of the contract’s commercial classification, evidence rules and modes of termination.
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